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This afternoon Ryan Adams posted the link to the preorder for his upcoming release Ashes & Fire to Facebook which is due out on October 11th on PaxAm Records through a distribution arrangement with Capitol Records. The album was recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles and produced by Glyn Johns who produced albums from the likes of The Who, The Clash and The Rolling Stones among many others. Glyn happens to be the father of Ethan Johns who worked on Adams' Heartbreaker , Gold and 29 . [...]

• ryanadams - Lucky Now

We're just past the Ides of March and although he has historically exclaimed "Et Tu, Internets?" this month has brought us a bunch of new Ryan Adams news. The last time we heard from our hero, he had fired up his PaxAm imprint and released two albums that had been hiding in his archives- his Metal Space Opera Orion and Cardinals III/IV which was two albums worth of Easy Tiger -Era recordings with The Cardinals. To accomplish his desired DIY apprach, he assembled a staff to handle the shipping [...]

This week the Ryan Adams fans of the world got some news that has been anticipated since the release of Orion earlier this year . The storefront for Ryan's vanity record label PaxAm got a serious makeover in the form of some great vintage video arcade-themed navigation as well as a bunch of new places to keep track of the world of Ryan- a video page , a page for mp3 downloads - the first things up are some jams from the beginning of the Easy Tiger sessions, future [...]

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• Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Breakdown into the Resolve

I get home last from seeing Local Natives at the Mill in Iowa City with Suckers in support , check my e-mail and I see the above ad in my e-mail! Thank goodness I checked my e-mail before I went to bed! This, of course, is the promised Metal album from Ryan Adams under the moniker Orion I reported on in March . Orion was recorded in 2006 with the final production completed earlier this year with Jamie Candiloro. It's being described as a "fully realized Sci-Fi Metal Concept Album." The track [...]

On Friday, March 12th, the long dormant Twitter account for Ryan Adams passed along this missive: We're going to begin pressing ORION - my most legit METAL record - on vinyl next week. http://ryanada.ms At his website over the weekend, he debuted a song called "Electrosnake" from his upcoming album Orion . This song is still available for free download (as a WAV file!). There was also a survey that was shut down yesterday asking whether respondants would buy this album. [...]

This week had the 'Net a flutter with news of Ryan Adams's re-launching his website and re-launching his Pax Americana (PaxAm) record label with a downloadable "Digital Single." Pre-orders went up mid-week with a promise of the songs shipping on Friday, September 11th. What you got for $1.49 was a .zip file with the advertised two songs "Lost and Found" and "Go Ahead and Rain" (which is mislabeled "Sunflower Rain") in both FLAC (YAY!) and 128Kbps mp3's plus a so-called "Free Jam" of the demo to the Cardinology song "Sink Ships" in 160Kbps mp3 [...]